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Good morning fellow Nova thugs, gangsters, brothers and fellows.

Reworking the brakes on my 72 and really trying to re-use the existing brackets and brake hold down clips. I got overly eager and removed a bracket without taking photos of where it attaches and how it works.

If anyone has original or semi-original brake lines and brackets in place and can shoot a few photos for me I would appreciate it.

It’s a bracket that holds the two front brake lines vertically. It should be near your power steering box somewhere. Looks like this but I’m not sure I have this oriented correctly. The hard lines had little rubber boots on them where this clamped. Almost looked like a piece of rubber hose that was sliced to fit over the line.
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unstable said:
Good morning fellow Nova thugs, gangsters, brothers and fellows.

Reworking the brakes on my 72 and really trying to re-use the existing brackets and brake hold down clips. I got overly eager and removed a bracket without taking photos of where it attaches and how it works.

If anyone has original or semi-original brake lines and brackets in place and can shoot a few photos for me I would appreciate it.

It’s a bracket that holds the two front brake lines vertically. It should be near your power steering box somewhere. Looks like this but I’m not sure I have this oriented correctly. The hard lines had little rubber boots on them where this clamped. Almost looked like a piece of rubber hose that was sliced to fit over the line.
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Bro, I looked everywhere for that bracket under my hood. Not anything like it although the MEATHTRAP has been molested by a meth-head so no telling where it would be if it was originally there...

Is it maybe on the frame rails? I have pictures of mine but I think they differ from your setup. I'll post if you want. lemme know.
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Looks perfect to me! Whew!!
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Just wanted to share my dilemma when I put my new lines in. I ordered mine from Right Stuff but I either order the wrong ones or was shipped the wrong ones. After installing them I then realized the were not going to reach the proportioning valve or the brakes. It appears they were for a Camaro so after some improvising, adapting and overcoming I ended up order the bracket that mounts the proportioning bracket under the master and relocating the frame brackets for the lines from the side of the frame to the top of the frame. At that point everything fit perfect without any cutting of lines. It does put the line kink preventers in the wrong location though. Just sharing another brake line issue.

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kimmer71
Thank you gents. I went looking for that exact bracket a few months ago. Even broke out the assembly book. I believe you have solved my problem! Fully awesome.
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Unstable you got it right. Pictured is my 69 original bracket with Right stuff lines. I was able to reuse rubber bushing.

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Just adding to what others have already posted....
Here is that same bracket on my 74 Nova. It's attached/bolted to the top of the subframe.
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It occurred to me that the bracket actually does under the drivers side hardline bracket…the guys that have the little spike on them that locates into a hole opposite the 1/2” headed bolt.

Thank all of you who took the time to reply on this thread and post pictures and feedback.

@J Mark what a pain in the butt. I just bought a coil of 3/16 and bent it myself. It’s not perfect but it’s not terrible at all. The suckiest thing was on the passenger front wheel. I flared the end and started working towards the proportioning valve, putting the line into brackets along the way. Got across the cross member and realized I had to unbolt it all and nicely remove it and start from the top down.

I’ve got a few more cuts and flares I need to do but it’s all there. Ended up spending the latter half of the afternoon and early evening installing an amp in a VW for the woman.

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